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Now that all looks set to change as Klopp will combine a stellar pre-season fixture list, including the the International Champions Cup [ICC], with plenty of work on the training ground.

'The gaffer wants us to work really hard in preparation for next season to make sure we are fit and can deal with the intensity and his demands,' Mignolet told Goal.

'We weren't able to train much with all the games we played - the matches were like our training - so this gives him a chance to spend more time working on everything he expects from us.

The Belgian stopper is looking forward to the Reds' hectic pre-season schedule of training and friendlies

'In the gaffer's seven months here we've seen that we're heading in the right direction and in pre-season he can put his stamp more so on us and implement his thinking more.'

Klopp is planning a rigorous fitness programme ahead of 2016-17, which includes matches against Chelsea, AC Milan and Barcelona in the ICC.

Liverpool will tackle four domestic fixtures at Tranmere, Fleetwood, Wigan and Huddersfield before jetting off to California for the start of the tournament. They face Chelsea at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and then line up against AC Milan three days later in Santa Clara.

Klopp will test his side out in the International Champions Cup alongside increased training volume

After two fixtures, the tournament then moves to England where Liverpool have a Wembley date with Barcelona on August 6.

Klopp will be working out of Liverpool's Melwood base, except for the US jaunt where the Reds will be based in Palo Alto and train at Stanford University, with triple sessions pencilled in on some days.

A combination of Euro 2016 and the Olympics means Klopp will only have a rolling cast of players to work with. The likes of new signing Loris Karius are expected to play in Rio.

Loris Karius is expected to play for Germany at the Olympics and may miss parts of Liverpool's pre-season

However Klopp thinks the schedule and the training summer plans he has issued to the squad will get the results he is after.

'We stop pre-season in the middle of August and maybe with the players who come back from the Euros it will be difficult, so we might have to make their pre-season two weeks longer so that it goes into the season,' Klopp explained.

'That might mean they do not play at that stage or they are only allowed to play so many minutes.'